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Present option for high performance Volume Group Snapshots

IBM i workloads and Epic Cache/Iris each have blueprints and best practices to use 64KB grain sizes for Thin Provisioned volumes and FlashCopy grain sizes. This is done with traditional FlashCopy and mkvdisk commands through the CLI. There are no ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Refresh support for HPE 3PAR/StorServ

Update current support for HPE 3PAR (StorServ) to support devices with newer firmware/SMI-S agents
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Planned for future release

Fiserv has standardized on PingID V1.36 as the MFA software of choice for their enterprize platforms and they would like to have IBM certify PingID with FlashSystem.

Fiserv has standardized on PingID V1.36 as the MFA software of choice for their enterprize platforms and they would like to have IBM certify PingID with FlashSystem Spectrum Virtualize 8.5.4
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Enable a storage system to perform NDMP backups using the CELERRADUMP data format

Please add “DellEMC” to the Vendor-name list that are allowed to use “celerradump” dataformat
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Planned for future release

Support for SEDs with ECE

Support the use of SEDs for storage with ECE, either with locally managed keys, centrally managed keys, or ideally, both
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Planned for future release

3 or more ISKLM IP address for TS7700

Intesa San Paolo, the biggest Italian Bank, with 3 Grids-3way installed, is asking for an ehancement for TS7700, related to ISKLM IP address.Custumer would like that more than 2 ISKLM IP address can be defined, at least 3.
about 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Planned for future release

TS7700 Flash Copy - Allow customers to Write to Flashed LVOLs - more like DS8K Flash Copy

DR Test RPQ- North Carolina Farm Bureau (NCFB) recently implemented a 2-way Tapeless Grid, Local primary Site (Raleigh, NC) replicating to Remote DR Site (IBM BCRS in Sterling Forest, NY). Prior to implementing the Tape Grid, NCFB sent physical ta...
over 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Web Client Access for TSM 815

Provide support for TSM web client connection to 815 TSM for NDMP data restore
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Planned for future release

TSM needs basic functionality on ALL common OS:es

The TSM client segfaults on startup on Fedora 18. While Fedora 18 hasn't yet made it to the best-effort support category, IBM should at least try to have dsmc basic functionality on all common operating systems. I'm also told that Ubuntu 13.04 use...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release

Node replication at lower priority

Ability to have 'repl node' command run at a lower, or user definable, priority.
almost 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Planned for future release

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